Sometimes I’m asked if I ever get bored—now that I’m retired from a paying job.
(A past photo)
No actually, I never get bored! I do get restless, sometimes. But never bored.
There always seems to be something to do or to see or to experience—-right here on the farm. Those small little creatures which keep my mind from wandering into dullness.
Winter will ‘do me in’ with it’s terrible cold and long dreary days. But I’m not bored. The frozen outside has stilled the voices of trees and water. The winter animals and birds are desperately on the hunt for food and survival, the sounds chill on the air with the low slung arc of the sun.
I bought my bedding plants yesterday and will plant them today. I will work digging the little holes needed for each small plant listening to the voices murmuring in the trees and the water of the canal, as I carefully water and fill in the soil around each plant. Terry and I will repair the outside furniture, set an arch he made for me, and I will start painting the trim and benches in the gardens. I will paint, then weed, and trim, and prune as the sun travels across the sky.
With love from my world to your heart!
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
I was told once, “being bored is for those who have small minds.” I feel that God’s world has so much to observe, even in the driest, hottest, coldest, wettest of climes.
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I so agree with you Mark. Although, I’ve never lived in a city, I’ll bet just watching on a street corner or a park bench would be so very interesting.
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I love the rhythm of your days and the way you describe them.
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Pretty much just like yours and Betsy’s! 🙂
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I could never get bored. I make a plan for the day, get started and suddenly my plans are changed and sometimes I never get back on track. Never ever boring !!
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Nope never bored! Sometimes lots of work is planned and someone drops by for a very welcome visit—the work waits. It will always be there; the visitor won’t.
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No reason for anyone to ever be bored!
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No there really isn’t!
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You are the last person I would ever think would be bored. The last.
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Restless sometimes….
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Never thought I’d be envious of digging and weeding… 🙂 I shall enjoy your yardwork vicariously.
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re: the “past photo” — one of those forest-fire daze, eh?
and so far in retirement I have not been bored. “volunteer opportunities” are cropping up with regularity. some of it not so exciting but necessary none-the-less — e.g. two daze spent marking high-school long-jumpers’ efforts in the sand during the “big” track/field meet a couple weekends ago.
almost died from over-excitement just last Monday! (ended up way over my head in some sort of “upper level challenge match” between two hockey gangs, one of which was glad “someone” (no matter how poor a player) showed up to be goalie for their side. whew. and it’ll be a while (if i’m smart) before I decide to “get under the influence” before playing again …)
Betty says each week that “no more plants” yet each week either buys some more (or… shhh! don’t tell the BLM) — or we gather a few likely candidates from out in the desert ~
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That’s what we have found in retirement…we are so busy now we wonder how we worked at a paying job. Of course we still farm…sometimes there is money in it! 🙂
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When you love where you are and what you are doing, it is impossible to be bored. I would never think to ask you (of all people) if you were bored. You don’t have time to be! There is a difference between bored and restless though! I too am never bored, but occasionally restless but for me that is usually because I don’t work — physicallly — hard enough. (Definitely not your problem!) A long nature walk (or my purple trike) will always take care of mine!
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I think my restless comes when I need a small change—a walk helps. Also, not having to cook helps. 🙂
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hoooz dewwin da cookin’ ?
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I cook, but then we go out to eat!
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You left out the work that you do on the farm! Very important!
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Oh, yes…It’s such a part of the everyday (like cooking) I forget!
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